Movie Reviews and Previews Can Chris Evans dance like Gene Kelly? Chris Evans has been trying to will himself into a musical for a while, and with his Little Shop of Horrors remake stalled (for now), he has put together another project that will let him do a little singing and dancing at last: he’ll star as Gene Kelly. One-upping By Sarah • Jan 05, 2022 09:29 am
Relationship Assumption Brie Larson: NYE Courtside I did a lot of Marvel-ing during the holidays. It was like a soother for me, since the COVID situation where I live is f-cked, and now schools are closed and restrictions are in place, and it’s cold and bleak, Marvel content was the escape. I watched all the By Lainey • Jan 04, 2022 02:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine: Year End Viral Before we get to the new year though, just a bit of Chris Pine catchup – and some other celebrities too. He was seen before Christmas, on December 10, at the Sunset Tower alongside some other big stars to celebrate Amanda Anka’s birthday. Amanda is married to Jason Bateman who, By Lainey • Jan 04, 2022 10:56 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland’s Test With Spider-Man: No Way Home riding high at the box office—it’s the only billion-dollar film of 2020 AND 2021—Tom Holland now faces the hurdle that has been difficult for other Marvel actors to clear: proving his box office mettle outside the MCU. Uncharted opens in February, which By Sarah • Dec 28, 2021 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Top Ten Films of 2021 After last year, 2021 feels like a more normal year in film. Just a reminder that for 2020, we adjusted to the extended Oscar eligibility calendar, so there are some films from early in the year that are on the 2020 list, like Barb and Star. So, if you’re By Sarah • Dec 28, 2021 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Bat and The Cat A new trailer for The Batman dropped yesterday, this time heavily featuring Zoe Kravitz as Selina Kyle/Catwoman. While fully acknowledging that Michelle Pfeiffer’s performance as Catwoman in Batman Returns is immortal, I like the vibe of Kravitz’s Catwoman. I especially like her and Batman pushing each other’ By Sarah • Dec 28, 2021 10:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Matrix Resurrections: a radical reclamation of mythology Twenty-two years after its debut, The Matrix is a landmark technical achievement in cinema memorable for its mind-bending use of philosophy, but it’s also remembered for its less than acclaimed sequels, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, and for how its “red pill” terminology has been coopted by By Sarah • Dec 23, 2021 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Doctor Strange and Doctor Strange meet in the multiverse The post-credit scene on Spider-Man: No Way Home is a teaser for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which has now been released online. It’s fine. It doesn’t feel especially like a Sam Raimi movie, but it does feel like a teaser for a movie that is By Sarah • Dec 23, 2021 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Armie Hammer is still in Death on the Nile The much-delayed Death on the Nile is set to finally premiere on February 11, 2022 (supposedly, let’s see if anything changes over the next couple of months). A new trailer dropped yesterday to remind everyone that this movie exists, and unlike the first trailer, which was borderline camp, this By Sarah • Dec 22, 2021 12:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck in The Tender Bar The basic concept of The Tender Bar is “what if Hillbilly Elegy, but mediocre?” Directed by George Clooney and adapted by William Monahan from J.R. Moehringer’s memoir of the same name, The Tender Bar is a very similar premise to Hillbilly Elegy (while the film version beat The By Sarah • Dec 22, 2021 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Alexander Skarsgard fulfills his destiny in The Northman Robert Eggers, auteur of the itchiest goddamn cinema, is back with a new film starring Alexander Skarsgard, The Northman. Skarsgard fulfills his destiny by playing Thor a Viking prince called Amleth. In medieval Scandi literature, Amleth is the inspiration for Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a boy whose father, the king, is By Sarah • Dec 21, 2021 11:15 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 21, 2021 Dear Gossips, As Sarah covered in yesterday’s open, the Spider-Man: No Way Home box office has been a big story – and relief – in Hollywood the last few days; considering the pandemic, and the fact that there’s been no shortage of Marvel superhero content this year (with WandaVision, Falcon By Lainey • Dec 21, 2021 08:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence in 'Don’t Look Up' Don’t Look Up, directed by Adam McKay and written by McKay from a story he developed with David Sirota, wants to be Network but for climate change. Roughly two-thirds of the way into the film, Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio, whose performance is one of the only redeemable things By Sarah • Dec 20, 2021 03:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim in Licorice Pizza Paul Thomas Anderson returns to the greater Los Angeles milieu of the 1970s, but instead of a despairing tale about the failure of the American Dream, he’s here with a sweet, mostly gentle coming of age dramedy loosely inspired by his own adolescence in the Valley. As someone who By Sarah • Dec 20, 2021 01:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Review: Olivia Colman in The Lost Daughter Maggie Gyllenhaal makes her feature directorial debut with The Lost Daughter, an adaptation, also by Gyllenhaal, of Elena Ferrante’s novella. Gyllenhaal is astoundingly assured, as both a director and a screenwriter, interweaving past and present into a crushing tale of motherhood and personhood that are not always in agreement. By Sarah • Dec 17, 2021 03:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Review: Hell is other people in Nightmare Alley Following the fish f-cking of The Shape of Water, Guillermo Del Toro returns the slightly more normal world of monstrous humanity, where there are no fish-men or haunted houses or magical labyrinths, only the hell of other people. Directed by Del Toro, and adapted by Del Toro and Kim Morgan By Sarah • Dec 17, 2021 01:58 pm
